Death camp guard, 87, may face charges

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The conviction of John Demjanjuk for mass murder has led investigators to reopen other casesJohannes Simon/Getty Images

Allan HallBerlin

Published at 8:21PM, August 21 2012

A former guard at the Auschwitz extermination camp may face trial in Germany
charged with complicity in the murder of 344,000 Hungarian Jews.

The suspect, 87, who does not live in Germany, could be the first of up to 20
former death camp personnel to face justice after the landmark verdict in
the case of John Demjanjuk in Munich last year. Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk was
the first Nazi war criminal ever found guilty of mass murder without a
witness or any documentary proof.

Judges ruled that his very presence as a guard in the Sobibor death camp in
occupied Poland in